Tag: reading
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Book Review: Lost in Thought by Deborah Serra
First of all, I finished this book at 11:00 pm last night, and I lay awake far too long thinking about the ending. Today, I had some things I needed to take care of in preparation for a school play I am directing, and I found myself repeatedly day dreaming about this book. I think…
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Book Review: I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella
In preparing for a trip overseas this past summer, I purchased a few ebooks for my Kindle. I wanted to be sure that once I boarded the plane, I had some choices of what I could read. Sophie Kinsella’s book I’ve Got Your Number was one of those books. I ended up reading this towards…
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Book Review: Janie Writes a Play by Heidi E. Y. Stemple and illustrated by Madelyn Goodnight
For those of you who have been following my book reviews, this will be a bit different for you. Today I read a book to be published on February 11, 2025, a children’s picture book with only 40 pages, short paragraphs on each page, and bright, colorful illustrations on every page. This is a bit…
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Book Review: Something Better by Diane Parrish
Reading a debut novel is always exciting for me. Maybe it will be great and I will anxiously await the sophomore novel, and on and on, being a completist from the start! Maybe it will be very good and I can watch the author’s craft strengthen and develop from one book to the next. Maybe…
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Book Review: The Examiner by Janice Hallett
The Examiner is my second book by Janice Hallett, having read The Appeal in March of 2023, and I must say I was very pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed this book. I requested it from NetGalley, compliments of Atria Books, because of the description. NetGalley’s description tells of a university professor teaching a…
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Book Review: The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods
Although I just returned from a week in Ireland, and two weeks in France, we were nowhere near Paris, due to the Olympics taking over the city. While the southwest of France where we exclusively traveled on this trip was beautiful, I do wish I could get to Paris for two things: more French food…
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Book Review: My Favourite Mistake by Marian Keyes
First of all, my feelings about this book are mostly due to my own mistake, and as an avid reader with thousands of books under my belt, I have to admit it is a rookie mistake I shouldn’t have made. This is my first Marian Keyes book, and although I’ve seen her name and numerous…
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Book Review – Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson by Paul French
First, thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the ARC of this work of nonfiction, a history of sorts of Wallis Simpson, the late Duchess of Windsor, and the time she spent in China in the mid-1920s. I have long been drawn to nonfiction works about the Royal Family of Great Britain and…
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Book Review: Like Mother, Like Mother by Susan Rieger
Everyone knows the saying, “Like mother, like daughter,” or “Like father, like son.” We all inherit certain traits and characteristics from our parents and pass on some of them to our own children. In my case, though, it is more like, “Like father, like daughter.” My father was a first-class storyteller. Sometimes they started out…
Michelle Blanchard Ardillo 